Blake Mycoskie Quotes
If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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At first, social media was just about networking. But now that I have to network, I make sure that every platform makes money for me. You can do something on Facebook.
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I studied business in the U.S. and later worked in Dubai.
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The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.
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We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.
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I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.
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One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
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I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'
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Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
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If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
